Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

How long can you last without cringing?

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Correct answer.

 

[Twiglard]

Is this the only thing that occupies these people's mind the whole time? I know they don't play games or even buy games.

Two things. You forgot niggers.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

How long can you last without cringing?

Comment section is pure gold. I see the dislikes are almost equal to the likes. Wouldn't be surprised if some of the dislikes magically disappear

 

[Lacrymas]

Those comments are more cringe than anything that video can pull off.

 

[Ismaul]

Those comments are more cringe than anything that video can pull off.

Choose Your Own Cringe

In true Biowarean fashion.

 

[Lacrymas]

True cringe connoisseurs. If there's a video game company which can produce pure, concentrated cringe at a startling and frankly worrying pace, it's Bioware.

 

[Caim]

Let's do a little price comparison!

ME1: 20 bucks
ME2: 20 bucks regular, 30 bucks for the Digital Deluxe edition
ME3: 30 bucks regular, 30 bucks for the DLC
Legendary: 60 bucks

So right now it's almost 50% cheaper to buy the Legendary Edition than to buy all the other editions seperately, and you have to jump through some hoops to get the DLC for ME2. Really makes you think.

 

[Yosharian]

Yeah they doubled the price of the original games at the beginning of the year, also they haven't been on sale for a long time but when they were it was like 3 bucks for each game

you can still get Origin keys for the originals very cheaply if you look around

 

[Lagole Gon]

Nooooooooo!!! Not my secretary sluterinooo~!!!

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Some thoughts more than 10 hours into Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

I played the original the required 7 times and I have to say the LE is better. The combat is much more fluid. Your weapon skills still matter in terms of damage you do to the enemy, and accuracy over mid-to-long distances, but making it more accurate overall is less aggravating, especially when playing on higher difficulties where the enemies turn to bullet sponges.

I am playing on Insanity, the highest difficulty, and the combat is much more difficult than I remember because enemy AI has improved and they do their best to try to flank you and overwhelm you rather than popamoling and staying put. They also hit really fucking hard, so the challenge comes from trying to take on overwhelming odds, rather than holding down the fire button against big bulletsponges.

I was happy to see the visuals were not compromised like the early leaked streams seemed to suggest. Lighting is close to how it was in the original, especially in dark environments like the Normandy. Brighter environments light up the characters’ faces more, but not to any distracting degree. I haven’t seen anything as bad as the early streams or screenshots. So far it feels like a faithful recreation of the original, but with better lighting and textures.

I kept the original Mako controls, so no complaints there. The new default controls just have it steer more like a car, but that can be really annoying when in firefights, so the original tank controls are best.

The only other changes I’ve noticed is that you can choose the highest level - 60 or 30. If you choose 60, you get less skill points each level, but progress through the levels faster. I guess it’s only there for the real autistic kind of purists who still want to get to 60. I am playing to 30, and I’m guessing it won’t affect the ME2 import.

Bugs in the original have gone, as you’d expect. Garrus has skin textures now, and there aren’t any weird audio or visual bugs from what I’ve seen. Cutscenes are higher resolution, load times have shortened so you have time to listen to elevator conversations / reports just before you reach the destination, or skip them entirely and get there much faster.

To summarise, this is the definitive edition if you haven’t played the previous games. If you have, it depends how much you want the tweaked combat and other small QoL improvements. A lot of the visuals can be improved via mods , so it’s really just down to how much you want the new combat. It’s easy enough to deal with the quirks and bugs of the original.

 

[502]

Can't wait until little Garrus transitions and gets upset when deadnamed.

 

[Padzi]

Please, few years ago parents named their newborn daughter Tali'Zorah.
I still remember the cringe.

 

[vortex]

I would never name my kids by ME companions since I had relationships with them all. It would totally be wrong.

 

[Yosharian]

Some thoughts more than 10 hours into Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

I played the original the required 7 times and I have to say the LE is better. The combat is much more fluid. Your weapon skills still matter in terms of damage you do to the enemy, and accuracy over mid-to-long distances, but making it more accurate overall is less aggravating, especially when playing on higher difficulties where the enemies turn to bullet sponges.

I am playing on Insanity, the highest difficulty, and the combat is much more difficult than I remember because enemy AI has improved and they do their best to try to flank you and overwhelm you rather than popamoling and staying put. They also hit really fucking hard, so the challenge comes from trying to take on overwhelming odds, rather than holding down the fire button against big bulletsponges.

I was happy to see the visuals were not compromised like the early leaked streams seemed to suggest. Lighting is close to how it was in the original, especially in dark environments like the Normandy. Brighter environments light up the characters’ faces more, but not to any distracting degree. I haven’t seen anything as bad as the early streams or screenshots. So far it feels like a faithful recreation of the original, but with better lighting and textures.

I kept the original Mako controls, so no complaints there. The new default controls just have it steer more like a car, but that can be really annoying when in firefights, so the original tank controls are best.

The only other changes I’ve noticed is that you can choose the highest level - 60 or 30. If you choose 60, you get less skill points each level, but progress through the levels faster. I guess it’s only there for the real autistic kind of purists who still want to get to 60. I am playing to 30, and I’m guessing it won’t affect the ME2 import.

Bugs in the original have gone, as you’d expect. Garrus has skin textures now, and there aren’t any weird audio or visual bugs from what I’ve seen. Cutscenes are higher resolution, load times have shortened so you have time to listen to elevator conversations / reports just before you reach the destination, or skip them entirely and get there much faster.

To summarise, this is the definitive edition if you haven’t played the previous games. If you have, it depends how much you want the tweaked combat and other small QoL improvements. A lot of the visuals can be improved via mods , so it’s really just down to how much you want the new combat. It’s easy enough to deal with the quirks and bugs of the original.

They literally made the combat easier but I'm sure your ten year old memories of Insanity are accurate

The visuals are terrible compared to the original, that is objectively proven at this point

Bugs are gone in the originals too simply by installing a mod

So basically everything you said is wrong

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Some thoughts more than 10 hours into Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

I played the original the required 7 times and I have to say the LE is better. The combat is much more fluid. Your weapon skills still matter in terms of damage you do to the enemy, and accuracy over mid-to-long distances, but making it more accurate overall is less aggravating, especially when playing on higher difficulties where the enemies turn to bullet sponges.

I am playing on Insanity, the highest difficulty, and the combat is much more difficult than I remember because enemy AI has improved and they do their best to try to flank you and overwhelm you rather than popamoling and staying put. They also hit really fucking hard, so the challenge comes from trying to take on overwhelming odds, rather than holding down the fire button against big bulletsponges.

I was happy to see the visuals were not compromised like the early leaked streams seemed to suggest. Lighting is close to how it was in the original, especially in dark environments like the Normandy. Brighter environments light up the characters’ faces more, but not to any distracting degree. I haven’t seen anything as bad as the early streams or screenshots. So far it feels like a faithful recreation of the original, but with better lighting and textures.

I kept the original Mako controls, so no complaints there. The new default controls just have it steer more like a car, but that can be really annoying when in firefights, so the original tank controls are best.

The only other changes I’ve noticed is that you can choose the highest level - 60 or 30. If you choose 60, you get less skill points each level, but progress through the levels faster. I guess it’s only there for the real autistic kind of purists who still want to get to 60. I am playing to 30, and I’m guessing it won’t affect the ME2 import.

Bugs in the original have gone, as you’d expect. Garrus has skin textures now, and there aren’t any weird audio or visual bugs from what I’ve seen. Cutscenes are higher resolution, load times have shortened so you have time to listen to elevator conversations / reports just before you reach the destination, or skip them entirely and get there much faster.

To summarise, this is the definitive edition if you haven’t played the previous games. If you have, it depends how much you want the tweaked combat and other small QoL improvements. A lot of the visuals can be improved via mods , so it’s really just down to how much you want the new combat. It’s easy enough to deal with the quirks and bugs of the original.

They literally made the combat easier but I'm sure your ten year old memories of Insanity are accurate

The visuals are terrible compared to the original, that is objectively proven at this point

Bugs are gone in the originals too simply by installing a mod

So basically everything you said is wrong

Haha, random sceeenshots on the internet does not equal proof. I’ve played the game myself and can see that the original leaks were played on low settings and do not reflect the actual visuals in the game.

 

[Zibniyat]

Haha, random sceeenshots on the internet does not equal proof. I’ve played the game myself and can see that the original leaks were played on low settings and do not reflect the actual visuals in the game.

Would you care to post a few screenshots of your own, if you haven't already in some other thread, at more or less the exact moments and scenes some of the screenshots we've been seeing lately were shot at? If it's not too much of a bother, it would lend much more credibility to what you say, as the alternative is purchasing the game and checking for ourselves which is obviously not a good solution.

 

[Yosharian]

Haha, random sceeenshots on the internet does not equal proof. I’ve played the game myself and can see that the original leaks were played on low settings and do not reflect the actual visuals in the game.

REALLY that's interesting because I've watched several reviews and the graphics from them line up with what those screenshots show.

But if I'm wrong then I'm happy to accept that. You got some screenshots from some early conversations?

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Would you care to post a few screenshots of your own, if you haven't already in some other thread, at more or less the exact moments and scenes some of the screenshots we've been seeing lately were shot at? If it's not too much of a bother, it would lend much more credibility to what you say, as the alternative is purchasing the game and checking for ourselves which is obviously not a good solution.

REALLY that's interesting because I've watched several reviews and the graphics from them line up with what those screenshots show.

But if I'm wrong then I'm happy to accept that. You got some screenshots from some early conversations?

I don't fancy spending the rest of my Sunday evening taking screenshots for you lot.

 

[Yosharian]

Pressing printscreen during a cutscene = your whole Sunday evening

ok brah

 

[Yosharian]

Here's a screengrab of a Legendary Edition cutscene taken directly from Mack's video

Spoiler

And here's a screenshot of my modded game that I'm playing right now, Origin platform:

Spoiler

I can't wait to hear what stupid shit you spew next to defend your 60 dollar purchase, you dumbfuck. Let me guess, Mack doesn't know how to set up his graphics correctly, right?

 

[Yosharian]

No no wait I know, mods are cheating, right? Lmao.

BTW this look me like 5 mins to do.

 

[Chippy]

Just sat through the "mastered comparison trailer" on Steam and I genuinely thought the old footage was the remastered stuff. I'm not trying to be edgy and hate on Bioware. I'm ambivalent to them at this point and if it was sensibly priced, I would have bought it.

I have to admit, I'm crap at spotting decent graphics. I don't even know when I'm watching a movie in HD. But if you had showed me that comparison trailer, I would have said the old stuff was the remastered material. Reminds me of this:
https://babylonbee.com/news/old-fog...tem-meant-a-noticeable-difference-in-graphics

"Not satisfied by all of the improvements, though, are old fogies. “Back in my day,” rambled an elderly 41-year-old man, “when a next-gen system came out, just one glimpse of a screenshot and you were blown away by graphics like you’d never seen before. The games they’re premiering now, I just have to take their word for it that it’s not all running on an Xbox One.”

The younger generation was having none of this nonsense. “Then you need to get your eyes checked, old man!” said one young man who was “hip” and “with it.” “These new games have ray-tracing, and if you can’t tell the difference, then you need to get closer to the screen and squint harder! Squint harder, old man!”

“Bah!” answered the old coot. “When I first saw a game running on a Nintendo 64, I was in a coma for a week because my brain couldn’t handle that leap from the Super Nintendo. When I see a screenshot from a PS5, you could have told me it was from a PS3 and I wouldn’t have argued with you.”

“Then you’re senile, old man!” answered the younger gamer. “And we need to put you in an old folks' home where all you’ll be able to play is Wii Bowling!”

The old man muttered and shuffled away, having to satisfy himself with nostalgic re-releases of games he played when he was younger, though all the nostalgic re-releases now are of games he played after he graduated college."

 

[Yosharian]

Here's a more direct comparison side by side

 

[Ghulgothas]

Man, fuck lighting, fuck contrast and fuck composition. It's all about the textures maaaaaaan~.

 

[Yosharian]

Man, fuck lighting, fuck contrast and fuck composition. It's all about the textures maaaaaaan~.

Yeah but with mods the textures on the original are better if anything lol

Not the armor and environments obviously but the faces, they are just as good